“The Jazz and Kings have conducted exploratory trade talks centered on John Collins,” Forbes’ Evan Sidery shared via Twitter/X on Thursday afternoon. “Sacramento can make salaries work while avoiding the tax by including Kevin Huerter and Trey Lyles.”

Tracing Doug Christie’s path from Seattle high school star to Pepperdine, the NBA, TV, radio and interim coach of the Sacramento Kings.

Unfortunately, Sacramento's key sixth man has been ruled out for the remainder of the game after injuring his ankle. Ellis took an awkward step on teammate Domantas Sabonis' foot, immediately folding to the floor before heading to the locker room.

On a road back-to-back, Jalen Green and the Rockets visit Sacramento (-3.5) on Thursday night. It’s the second TNT game of the season for Houston.

The first 10 games of the Doug Christie era have been a massive success for the Sacramento Kings. It's only been 10 games, but Doug Christie has already made a monumental impact on the trajectory of the Sacramento Kings ' 2024-25 outlook.

The All-NBA center set a Sacramento-era single-game franchise record with 28 rebounds in a resounding win over the Boston Celtics on Friday. Sabonis grabbed the most rebounds by a Kings player since Connie Dierking (28) on March 19, 1969, and the most by a Celtics opponent since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (30) on Feb. 28, 1971.

The Kings and Rockets have met once this season, where Sacramento picked up a nine-point home win. While the Kings are not on their hot streak anymore, they could use another shot of momentum to continue to climb up the Western Conference standings. Thursday's matchup is not a must-win for the Kings, but it would certainly help.

Domantas Sabonis of the Sacramento Kings was named Western Conference Player of the Week after multiple dominating performances.

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The current Sacramento Kings winning streak could hit eight with victory against the Bucks - a feat not achieved since 2003.

Two of the hottest teams in the Western Conference will go head-to-head Thursday night when the Houston Rockets visit the Sacramento Kings in the rematch of an NBA Cup game from last month.

Houston will try to continue its five-game win streak with a victory against Sacramento. The teams play Thursday for the first time this season.